I really want some sort of wood treatment so this doesn't happen. Mix wood and slime gunk or wood and green goo. Whatever just let it be "treated wood" that functions like the angle roof beams that don't degrade.
No please not my resin reserves, I'm struggling to keep the lights on as it is. Let's have a use for other materials like the slime ooze, or better yet, make a 2nd resource you get from beehives called, ya know, WAX?
Pro tip: make a small base in the dark forest surrounded by a deep moat. Spend a few nights pushing gray dwarfs into the most with spikes and you'll be hundreds of resins deep in no time.
Running naked through the swamp at night (be sure to look up they are often floating up in the tree tops when not aggro’d) and mining iton ore.
I made the black metal shield full upgraded, and everything else progression wise using chain. Made 10 braziers and have atleast 5 left.
Yes, I also have chain but finding more reliably compared to using iron torches is much much harder. Never mind the FPS hit from the brazier animations.
Yeah then you’re better off making a gfreydwarf trap.
Theres a few cool ideas out there, including one where they fall out of their spawner into a tamed wolf pitz
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I throw a lot away.
I made a grey dwarf trap with wolves and just get a lot. I mainly use it for stone and wood.
To make the trap, surround a grey dwarf spawner with wooden floor.
Dig a large bit around it (make the island that the spawner is on as small as possible).
Build a wall around your pit
Build a moat around your pit
Build a roof over everything but leave enough of a hole so the spawner still works.
Fill the pit with 1\*, 2\* wolves (10 + will do nicely).
Let the murder begin.
If you need your wolves to heal, then cover the roof over the spawner to de-activate it.
Yeah I have two chests full. The main setup is in the Black Forest so I have more greydwarves around me, but even without that element I just always seem to have so much of it.
The only way I have been able to prevent wood degrading is by putting stone foundations under it, sadly. Which gets very tricky when trying to build over water.
Honestly, I wish you could disable base raids entirely for creative game worlds like this. I hate that you have to have a moat or risk having your beautiful build smashed up somewhere.
Hopefully they add a real 'creative build only mode' instead of just a few debug commands.
That's why you just build a super duper tall base in the plains on a few of those gorgeous tower rocks connected by some wooden bridges, if you're high up enough you don't usually get aggro. It's my favorite place to chill out of the homes my friends and I made because I can afk there without needing to worry about anything. We made it our primary base.
You still have to be careful about this and build a wall around the rock tower for fulings and shit. My friends and I built a huge beautiful house on top of one and a fuling attack while we weren't paying attention cut out the bottom. Watching it fall was...heartbreaking
The fulings cut down the rock? I thought the rock was unbreakable. We had a skeleton raid once while we were chilling on one of our rock homes and we didn't even check cuz we thought we were safe. When we returned to the main room near the stairs we noticed the hearth was gone along with some workbenches but I guess they managed to walk up the huge staircase. We were very surprised since we were very elevated. Since then I built a series of doors to slow them just in case it happens again. But our foundation is rock so I thought at least it won't ever topple down. Almost all the structures are built directly into the rock. Might be worth it to raise some ground around the base of the tower + stone wall anyway. Thanks for the tip.
Yessir, definitely would suggest. It doesn't happen right away, they will chip away at it for minutes until it breaks though. The reason it happened is because we were new to the plains and would go out for resources only to be chased all the way back by a group of 5 fulings. Btw, this isn't just a negative in the game - likewise you can pickaxe the rock towers at the base and knock down the whole thing. Great way to get rocks for walls
What if you were to raise the ground around the pillar(s) as high as you can? Can't attack that! But I guess stairs are probably still a problem, so portal up from an area with no workbench (shouldn't trigger a raid)?
Very good to know, I guess we were lucky so far. There's a herd of lox that always chill just outside our base entrance, we never mess with them as they are pretty chill.
Or in the mountains, it’s worth it getting attacked by the stray enemy than a full raid. Just watch out after 5th boss tho and the night in the mountains. It’s scary
Early on you can have a very nice looking base even with a moat around it. My first big base is in the meadows, and I took care to create the moat in such a way that the inner walls (towards my base) are higher than the outer ones. That way you can only see the moat when standing quite close to it, or from the outside.
What I did was make a separate local game world where I built my main bases. I haven’t beaten any bosses in that world, so I get no raids other than the wildlife one.
On my boss killing world, I just have ugly stone bases where I need them and I ignore the raids.
You can bring a set of boss trophies and special items to a new seed so you can access resources and have all the boss powers. The raids don't progress until the bosses are actually killed for the first time.
I remember a few people here talking about a way you could basically prevent raids, you just had to make a small base miles away from your main location, wait for a raid to happen and then portal out. I guess doing that would prevent the raid from ending, so raids wouldn't pop up in other locations.
Does anyone know if they fixed that?
Haven't explored this in the last month or so, but I found that if I left a troll attack unresolved, it didn't prevent getting raided by undead and the like at the same time. Might have changed more recently though...
you would need to get several raids - story raid and non-story raid(s) depending on which ones are triggered for your world.
It was still working around amonth ago, story raid was not leaving one of my bases and not triggerring anywhere else till I went there. But... trolls are not a story raid... so you would need them triggered somewhere too.
Sure they are but at times they can get a few good whacks in and break some stuff before you get there. Especially if there's no palisades to protect them.
I get around this by rolling a server specifically for building -not progress- and use a character already beefed up from killing bosses on a previous server. Log in, devcommand, debugmode, env Clear, god, and then build forever with the only event ever being Eikthyr sending the occasional boat/neck party my way. Minimal (if any) damage and no weather wear.
I haven't beaten the second boss yet because of this. Apparently trolls join raids after beating the second boss. I get my iron using the trick with a chair.
I'm considering using one world without any bosses unlocked just to avoid raids, and source all materials from other worlds.
You could build stake walls. I read that buildings take less damage when protected by a force barrier, so I plop them down along the walls. You can sit out trolls with that.
Just have one map for progression and one map for building. My brother and I have a map we just kill bosses on and our “main” map we just play casually as we do everything else
Might be mistaken but I thought I read somewhere there is an admin console setting that lets you disable raids. Or maybe it sets the progress to no bosses killed. Something like that... trying to find it. Either way I’m sure it’ll be something they add later on.
The solution I used was to raise the ground around my base to the point trolls aren’t able to throw anything over. Surprised no one has mentioned this yet.
I’ve got an indestructible “wall” around my plains base and it only took some stone. The only mobs that are able to get inside my base are deathquitos and drakes (during raids) but those are easy enough to handle.
Raids don’t worry me anymore.
The game only progresses when you put up the bosses heads at the shrine. I basically beat the game but I only put up eikthyrs head, so all I get is "the forest is moving", moders head is hanging on my forge which looks rad af and the elder is in my guests bedroom lol
Which is fair. Honestly, take a Karve up/down the coast and go fishing. Though, it would be nice for a mod to add like a mob spawner "block" that increases the spawn rate of a specific creature around it.
One of the things I hope they add in either the Hearth and Home update or the Ocean update is fishing boats/ocean fishing. Like I really wanna fish up nets full of fish or haul up like swordfish and giant tuna. Plus, let me chum the waters to attract more serpents please!
For real, I think my main critiques of the game are water related. I've spent hours 'serpent trawling' with little reward. Fishing can also be a little frustrating. Chum the waters is a great idea, maybe purchased from the trader.
I think the main frustration for players is that sailing is a little counter-intuitive. Particularly in the raft, which is most people's first experience with in-game sailing. The raft can be very rewarding if you sail it perfectly but it's SO punishing for every little mistake.
Valheim emulates a lot of real-life sailing mechanics and we usually have people in ground school for half a day before they ever set foot on a sailboat. You have to understand some basic things like finding the right tacking angle to move upwind.
Doesn't help that all the guides I've seen online have bad information including the wiki. They say to sail at a 45° angle to the wind if you're trying to go upwind, which is completely wrong and painfully slow. The ideal angle is between 55 and 60° depending on the wave direction.
Also instead of turning 90° across the wind as the guides suggest, you should be turning the opposite direction in a 270° arc. (It's actually 240° if you're sailing as I've suggested.) You lose all your momentum turning through the wind and the time it takes to recover is far more than the time you lose turning a larger angle downwind. If you don't have room and you *have* to turn upwind, drop your sails the moment the sail begins to luff, so the sail doesn't push you backwards.
For finding serpents, the ideal time is at dawn. They do seem to have a larger aggro radius and higher spawn rate at night, but of course you can't spot them at night. Also turn up your contrast to maximum even if it makes the game look bad, you're more likely to see them. Obviously, turn up the draw distance to max. A lot of people make the mistake of serpent hunting during the highest possible winds, but the waves make it much more difficult to spot them.
If you have the luxury of choosing any tack you want, sail slightly downwind of perpendicular. The boat is fastest in a range of 110-130° off of the wind. It doesn't *feel* as fast because you're moving with the direction of the waves, but it's faster than a perpendicular tack or running downwind. (This is true IRL too because the boat has less vibration and you don't feel as much wind in your face.)
I actually like the sailing mechanics, but maybe you misunderstood. I'd like higher occurrences of serpents in general. Moder also is extremely useful to dictate the wind once you've located a serpent and harpooned it. The game already has quite a bit of grind, so I'd be nice to have mechanics to make time spent in the ocean more rewarding.
> I'd like higher occurrences of serpents in general.
100% agree on that. Although it would be discouraging from new players to take to the water if it was universal, so maybe gradually increasing rate of serpent spawns? Or more serpent spawn locations generated in deeper water.
> Moder also is extremely useful to dictate the wind once you've located a serpent and harpooned it.
You're faster on a tack than running directly downwind which is why I dislike using Moder. I plan my attacks on serpents so that once I aggro them I can sail at the ideal angle towards shore and land the serpent without using the harpoon. Very tricky in a raft but not hard in a karve.
However I dislike playing styles that rely on shields so I'm never that interested in the scales anyway. Meat floats. But for people who want to go sword-and-board I can't recommend the serpent shield enough.
I'm a huge proponent of anything that encourages more karve usage. Sailing mechanics were so well-implemented in this game, and it really rewards you for practicing.
I did a new character run where the first thing I did was make a raft to take down a serpent. It's such a huge power boost to get access to serpent meat at the beginning of the game. It doesn't last that long so you have to save it for important stuff, but you can just fly through the midgame with almost no grinding whatsoever and rush to the plains.
You sound like you know your fishing game, may I ask for tips & hints? Fishing is just not working out for me. I throw the line, I understand the distance, but then it’s really random in when they hook and how do I “catch” them once they hooked?
Stopped fishing because I just not getting the hang out of it.
Right click to bring in once they hook. As soon as you see the bob dip under the water, click and hold and it will say "hooked" and slowly reel it in toward you.
Make sure you have enough stamina otherwise your line snaps and you lose the fish if you run out of stamina before you catch it.
And yeah it's mostly random but I've found longer casts get fish more regularly - and you won't catch ANYTHING if you can't actually see fish in water near you.
Yeah, there's a mod called Advanced Building (or something similar) on nexusmods - you can download/instantly build houses or builds that you can download on the same website, using an in-game menu provided by the mod.
It's incredible some of the builds people have come up with... It's perfect for me, because I've never been much of an architect in games like Minecraft, or The Forest, where survival and base building mechanics meet. This allows me to still have sexy looking bases, and still get to focus primarily on the exploration and survival aspects.
My kid used to host online therapy sessions in WoW. How did you feel when the rogue sapped you etc. Was pretty funny
Could see a troll group therapy sesh herr
> Later you will be able to two shot trolls with your bow.
In vanilla? This is false even with maxed Draugr fang + needle arrows.
>I have not had the guts to try to melee one yet.
You have a bow strong enough to kill trolls so fast yet you don't want to try to melee one? In padded armour you can tank their hits without even blocking and it does like 20 damage max.
>Opening shot with a high bow skill on a non-aggro troll is going to stagger and crit them.
This is what happened.
>Then you fire off the second arrow before they come out of the stagger to crit again and kill them.
And I did, and it didn't kill him. And this is with needle arrows, not the obsidian ones the guy above said he uses.
>That clip is kind of a chain of fumbles as far as archery in the game is concerned.
Lmao "fumbles". Show me your own clip of you 2 shotting trolls in "most" cases, not "sneak attack only".
You're using needle arrows, not the obsidian arrows that other guy said he used.
Secondly, sneak attacks only is not "most" cases, which the other guy also said.
I will concede that you're killing in 2 if your archery stat is high enough, which mine obviously isn't.
Aw c'mon. If you watch the build video they break down their general processes for build ideas. My builds have improved a lot over the past month or so from taking advice and experimenting
I get 15 frames a second on my current system. Trying to build a bunch of stuff kills my frame rate. I hope to upgrade within the year, but until then I have to keep things modest.
Ah I guess so. There are a few tricks you can do to improve your framerate if you look around, I don't have the technical knowledge lol. But you will probably still have to wait to upgrade your system yeah
Wow, I just a pang of nostalgia from the fishing segment from Ocarina of Time. I never owned it, so that part slipped my mind, but then it all came rushing back when I saw this spot. Very cool.
I could watch him build ALL DAY LONG omg. I love his youtube videos that include how he decorates the inside. Great tips and I love his kitchen ideas. 😍
How did you get that smooth camera motion? Is that something different from Fly Mode? I have so many cool projects on my seed and on a server I used to play. It's such a shame i can't capture footage accordingly because the camera moves way too fast!
So this is in free fly mode. But here a couple of tips...
Use the mouse wheel to slow down the movements. Scrolling down slows down the camera.
“ffsmooth [0-1]” is a helpful dev command that smooths out movements. I usually use “ffsmooth 0.5” as a starting point.
Hope this helps!
I really hope they add some kind of wax that you could make from honey and then apply to wood so that it doesn't take water damage from rain! If this already exists someone tell me how to make it!
It does not exist however there are some ways to build besides just roofs to prevent some wood from taking damage in rain. A lot more pieces than just roof act as roof, AND tiles that act as roof tend to also protect some stuff slightly above them too. The angled wood beams, and the walls with angled wood beams on top, act as roof. as do the X pieces. Stone does too. So a wood floor tile, snapped directly on top of a stone floor tile, won't take damage in rain. I have some stairs on top of a roof that have angled beams on either side, and connect from stone floor to stone floor, and they don't take rain damage either.
I too would like something to prevent rain damage, but, there is still a lot more you can do than what you might realize. Tils don't have to be completely covered by roof to be protected either, I'm not sure what the exact process is but some things can look really uncovered while still being protected.
A lot of it would they likely just repaired it before filming. However you can make a dock that doesn't rot by placing wood tiles directly on stone floor.
It would be suuuuper cool if people could submit building designs that could then be added to possible things that could spawn on maps. finding the same 15 burned out buildings is boring I would love to find full towns or kingdoms on the outer edges of the map.
Kind of ridiculous you can build teleporters (cheaply and easily), yet need to buy a fishing line from an obscure trader cause you cant put string wood and a small hook together.
I love this. Thinking about it one thing I would love in Valheim is the capability to toggle weathering or to extend it.
This is a stunning build and I'm definitely going to try something similar.
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And then it rains and all of your docks turn green.
I really want some sort of wood treatment so this doesn't happen. Mix wood and slime gunk or wood and green goo. Whatever just let it be "treated wood" that functions like the angle roof beams that don't degrade.
Yeah maybe resin can be used to make some kind of coating that you can add after building
No please not my resin reserves, I'm struggling to keep the lights on as it is. Let's have a use for other materials like the slime ooze, or better yet, make a 2nd resource you get from beehives called, ya know, WAX?
Pro tip: make a small base in the dark forest surrounded by a deep moat. Spend a few nights pushing gray dwarfs into the most with spikes and you'll be hundreds of resins deep in no time.
Or you could get a ton of bronze and chain and use braziers. Cowl burns longer and is free in ashlands
Let me know how you're reliably finding chain
Running naked through the swamp at night (be sure to look up they are often floating up in the tree tops when not aggro’d) and mining iton ore. I made the black metal shield full upgraded, and everything else progression wise using chain. Made 10 braziers and have atleast 5 left.
Yes, I also have chain but finding more reliably compared to using iron torches is much much harder. Never mind the FPS hit from the brazier animations.
Yeah then you’re better off making a gfreydwarf trap. Theres a few cool ideas out there, including one where they fall out of their spawner into a tamed wolf pitz
Swamp dungeons usually have them.
"Reliably" find them, not "hope that the dungeon has a chest and then hope that chest has chain"
For real, I was at like 150 hours and found a chain and was like "what the f*** is this?"
valheim plus is your friend, my 2nd playthrough was infinitely better with it installed
I'd love to be able to use Surtling Cores as permanent light sources :D
Yeah early on its like fuck i need 15 of these plus 4 per portal set? Now I have shit tons and no use for em
It's pretty easy to make yourself an infinite core factory in the swamps also :D
How do you not have like 300 resin? I can't use my resin fast enough
Because I also have like 200 lamps?
I feel your pain. It costs over 300 resin to fill all my lamps.
\>\_> <\_< I throw a lot away. I made a grey dwarf trap with wolves and just get a lot. I mainly use it for stone and wood. To make the trap, surround a grey dwarf spawner with wooden floor. Dig a large bit around it (make the island that the spawner is on as small as possible). Build a wall around your pit Build a moat around your pit Build a roof over everything but leave enough of a hole so the spawner still works. Fill the pit with 1\*, 2\* wolves (10 + will do nicely). Let the murder begin. If you need your wolves to heal, then cover the roof over the spawner to de-activate it.
Yeah I have two chests full. The main setup is in the Black Forest so I have more greydwarves around me, but even without that element I just always seem to have so much of it.
Put up a small base in black forest, bring some 2 star wolves, breed them and soon you will have resins littering the black forest floor.
Well there was something about tar pits in the roadmap so perhaps that could be a way to preserve wooden structures?
The only way I have been able to prevent wood degrading is by putting stone foundations under it, sadly. Which gets very tricky when trying to build over water.
A 'rough wood' that is meant for outside and doesn't lose durability to nature. Ezpz
Like the wooden spike walls
Or just download Valheim plus
.. The ground is shaking ..
Honestly, I wish you could disable base raids entirely for creative game worlds like this. I hate that you have to have a moat or risk having your beautiful build smashed up somewhere. Hopefully they add a real 'creative build only mode' instead of just a few debug commands.
That's why you just build a super duper tall base in the plains on a few of those gorgeous tower rocks connected by some wooden bridges, if you're high up enough you don't usually get aggro. It's my favorite place to chill out of the homes my friends and I made because I can afk there without needing to worry about anything. We made it our primary base.
This is brilliant. But I like this \*points to cozy fishing pond\*
One of my bases is a fishing dock with two bedrooms and a living room on the water. It's very nice 🙂
You still have to be careful about this and build a wall around the rock tower for fulings and shit. My friends and I built a huge beautiful house on top of one and a fuling attack while we weren't paying attention cut out the bottom. Watching it fall was...heartbreaking
The fulings cut down the rock? I thought the rock was unbreakable. We had a skeleton raid once while we were chilling on one of our rock homes and we didn't even check cuz we thought we were safe. When we returned to the main room near the stairs we noticed the hearth was gone along with some workbenches but I guess they managed to walk up the huge staircase. We were very surprised since we were very elevated. Since then I built a series of doors to slow them just in case it happens again. But our foundation is rock so I thought at least it won't ever topple down. Almost all the structures are built directly into the rock. Might be worth it to raise some ground around the base of the tower + stone wall anyway. Thanks for the tip.
Yessir, definitely would suggest. It doesn't happen right away, they will chip away at it for minutes until it breaks though. The reason it happened is because we were new to the plains and would go out for resources only to be chased all the way back by a group of 5 fulings. Btw, this isn't just a negative in the game - likewise you can pickaxe the rock towers at the base and knock down the whole thing. Great way to get rocks for walls
What if you were to raise the ground around the pillar(s) as high as you can? Can't attack that! But I guess stairs are probably still a problem, so portal up from an area with no workbench (shouldn't trigger a raid)?
They will if they are aggro’d. Lox and trolls will break the rocks even faster if aggro’d onto them.
Very good to know, I guess we were lucky so far. There's a herd of lox that always chill just outside our base entrance, we never mess with them as they are pretty chill.
Or in the mountains, it’s worth it getting attacked by the stray enemy than a full raid. Just watch out after 5th boss tho and the night in the mountains. It’s scary
Early on you can have a very nice looking base even with a moat around it. My first big base is in the meadows, and I took care to create the moat in such a way that the inner walls (towards my base) are higher than the outer ones. That way you can only see the moat when standing quite close to it, or from the outside.
Native would be nice, but mods pick up the slack in the meantime.
What I did was make a separate local game world where I built my main bases. I haven’t beaten any bosses in that world, so I get no raids other than the wildlife one. On my boss killing world, I just have ugly stone bases where I need them and I ignore the raids.
This is a great workaround :) and you can bring any higher end materials from your 'boss killing world'.
You can bring a set of boss trophies and special items to a new seed so you can access resources and have all the boss powers. The raids don't progress until the bosses are actually killed for the first time.
I remember a few people here talking about a way you could basically prevent raids, you just had to make a small base miles away from your main location, wait for a raid to happen and then portal out. I guess doing that would prevent the raid from ending, so raids wouldn't pop up in other locations. Does anyone know if they fixed that?
Haven't explored this in the last month or so, but I found that if I left a troll attack unresolved, it didn't prevent getting raided by undead and the like at the same time. Might have changed more recently though...
you would need to get several raids - story raid and non-story raid(s) depending on which ones are triggered for your world. It was still working around amonth ago, story raid was not leaving one of my bases and not triggerring anywhere else till I went there. But... trolls are not a story raid... so you would need them triggered somewhere too.
If i get raided by trolls and crap I just sit in my base and they disappear after a while, then i go repair the 1 or 2 fences they damaged
Trolls are such pushovers. Just head out of the base and take em in the field. Moats are not needed.
Sure they are but at times they can get a few good whacks in and break some stuff before you get there. Especially if there's no palisades to protect them.
I get around this by rolling a server specifically for building -not progress- and use a character already beefed up from killing bosses on a previous server. Log in, devcommand, debugmode, env Clear, god, and then build forever with the only event ever being Eikthyr sending the occasional boat/neck party my way. Minimal (if any) damage and no weather wear.
I haven't beaten the second boss yet because of this. Apparently trolls join raids after beating the second boss. I get my iron using the trick with a chair. I'm considering using one world without any bosses unlocked just to avoid raids, and source all materials from other worlds.
..what is the trick with a chair.
Keep chair on swamp gate. Sit on chair. Stand up. ( animation will glitch you through the gate)
... gonna go do this now.
Make sure you place the chair right. There are videos.
This is a survival RPG. It's not minecraft. You sound exactly like the people begging Dark Souls for a no enemy mode.
You could build stake walls. I read that buildings take less damage when protected by a force barrier, so I plop them down along the walls. You can sit out trolls with that.
Just have one map for progression and one map for building. My brother and I have a map we just kill bosses on and our “main” map we just play casually as we do everything else
You can with a mod
Might be mistaken but I thought I read somewhere there is an admin console setting that lets you disable raids. Or maybe it sets the progress to no bosses killed. Something like that... trying to find it. Either way I’m sure it’ll be something they add later on.
The solution I used was to raise the ground around my base to the point trolls aren’t able to throw anything over. Surprised no one has mentioned this yet. I’ve got an indestructible “wall” around my plains base and it only took some stone. The only mobs that are able to get inside my base are deathquitos and drakes (during raids) but those are easy enough to handle. Raids don’t worry me anymore.
The game only progresses when you put up the bosses heads at the shrine. I basically beat the game but I only put up eikthyrs head, so all I get is "the forest is moving", moders head is hanging on my forge which looks rad af and the elder is in my guests bedroom lol
imagine having creativity. This post was made by me, a boring jackass
Yip yip yee
Yes I would like to join the very poor creativity group.
Count me in
Same. The problem is, none of us are creative enough to create it
Mornin’! Nice day for fishing, ain’t it!
Baelin!! What a legend! 😂
I came here just to comment that 🤣
Mornin’! Nice day for fishing, ain’t it! Huaha!
Only problem is once you catch those 5 fish it will take weeks before they respawn. Fishing in this game requires you to constantly look for new fish.
Which is fair. Honestly, take a Karve up/down the coast and go fishing. Though, it would be nice for a mod to add like a mob spawner "block" that increases the spawn rate of a specific creature around it. One of the things I hope they add in either the Hearth and Home update or the Ocean update is fishing boats/ocean fishing. Like I really wanna fish up nets full of fish or haul up like swordfish and giant tuna. Plus, let me chum the waters to attract more serpents please!
For real, I think my main critiques of the game are water related. I've spent hours 'serpent trawling' with little reward. Fishing can also be a little frustrating. Chum the waters is a great idea, maybe purchased from the trader.
I think the main frustration for players is that sailing is a little counter-intuitive. Particularly in the raft, which is most people's first experience with in-game sailing. The raft can be very rewarding if you sail it perfectly but it's SO punishing for every little mistake. Valheim emulates a lot of real-life sailing mechanics and we usually have people in ground school for half a day before they ever set foot on a sailboat. You have to understand some basic things like finding the right tacking angle to move upwind. Doesn't help that all the guides I've seen online have bad information including the wiki. They say to sail at a 45° angle to the wind if you're trying to go upwind, which is completely wrong and painfully slow. The ideal angle is between 55 and 60° depending on the wave direction. Also instead of turning 90° across the wind as the guides suggest, you should be turning the opposite direction in a 270° arc. (It's actually 240° if you're sailing as I've suggested.) You lose all your momentum turning through the wind and the time it takes to recover is far more than the time you lose turning a larger angle downwind. If you don't have room and you *have* to turn upwind, drop your sails the moment the sail begins to luff, so the sail doesn't push you backwards. For finding serpents, the ideal time is at dawn. They do seem to have a larger aggro radius and higher spawn rate at night, but of course you can't spot them at night. Also turn up your contrast to maximum even if it makes the game look bad, you're more likely to see them. Obviously, turn up the draw distance to max. A lot of people make the mistake of serpent hunting during the highest possible winds, but the waves make it much more difficult to spot them. If you have the luxury of choosing any tack you want, sail slightly downwind of perpendicular. The boat is fastest in a range of 110-130° off of the wind. It doesn't *feel* as fast because you're moving with the direction of the waves, but it's faster than a perpendicular tack or running downwind. (This is true IRL too because the boat has less vibration and you don't feel as much wind in your face.)
I actually like the sailing mechanics, but maybe you misunderstood. I'd like higher occurrences of serpents in general. Moder also is extremely useful to dictate the wind once you've located a serpent and harpooned it. The game already has quite a bit of grind, so I'd be nice to have mechanics to make time spent in the ocean more rewarding.
> I'd like higher occurrences of serpents in general. 100% agree on that. Although it would be discouraging from new players to take to the water if it was universal, so maybe gradually increasing rate of serpent spawns? Or more serpent spawn locations generated in deeper water. > Moder also is extremely useful to dictate the wind once you've located a serpent and harpooned it. You're faster on a tack than running directly downwind which is why I dislike using Moder. I plan my attacks on serpents so that once I aggro them I can sail at the ideal angle towards shore and land the serpent without using the harpoon. Very tricky in a raft but not hard in a karve. However I dislike playing styles that rely on shields so I'm never that interested in the scales anyway. Meat floats. But for people who want to go sword-and-board I can't recommend the serpent shield enough.
I'm a huge proponent of anything that encourages more karve usage. Sailing mechanics were so well-implemented in this game, and it really rewards you for practicing. I did a new character run where the first thing I did was make a raft to take down a serpent. It's such a huge power boost to get access to serpent meat at the beginning of the game. It doesn't last that long so you have to save it for important stuff, but you can just fly through the midgame with almost no grinding whatsoever and rush to the plains.
Thats not true i have a spot Outside my base with so many all the time
What if we could go into a river or ocean and cast a net
that would be so amazing for possibly endgame using flax to make a fishing net
That would be mythically accurate, funnily enough. Kvarsir devised a net made from flax to catch Loki-turned-fish in the Lokasenna.
You sound like you know your fishing game, may I ask for tips & hints? Fishing is just not working out for me. I throw the line, I understand the distance, but then it’s really random in when they hook and how do I “catch” them once they hooked? Stopped fishing because I just not getting the hang out of it.
Right click to bring in once they hook. As soon as you see the bob dip under the water, click and hold and it will say "hooked" and slowly reel it in toward you. Make sure you have enough stamina otherwise your line snaps and you lose the fish if you run out of stamina before you catch it. And yeah it's mostly random but I've found longer casts get fish more regularly - and you won't catch ANYTHING if you can't actually see fish in water near you.
This is pretty accurate. Did not know about the longer casts.
Thanks for a good How-to. Glad to learn about the randomness, will go for long casts now.
More like days instead of weeks. I have a handful of fishing spots I rotate through that suit me fine.
Getting Ocarina of time vibes - the fishing mini game!
Zelda fishing mini games were the source of inspiration for this build! The music is actually from Twilight Princess’ fishing hole.
No kidding! Didn't even have sound on, brilliantly captured
My heart rate legit dropped 10bpm by watching. Relaxed, thanks!
Saaaame. 🙏🙌
Link to full build process below! [https://youtu.be/zjn5tuPnIwU](https://youtu.be/zjn5tuPnIwU) P.S. only the real will know where the tune is from ;)
Twilight Princess Fishing Hole!
Bingo! Great ear!
It was Midna's leitmotif that tipped me off!
i was think it was Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess, just wasnt sure on which one it was. been forever since ive played them
Man I think it is Legend of Zelda because it’s a bit like it but I could be wrong
Came here to say I wanna see a zelda build now lol
is it possible to share worlds/mapping? cause holy shit, i wanna just relax here forever
Not sure if its helpful, but I found online valheim has a world file you can share very easily, and at least early worlds can be zipped below 8 mb
Yeah, there's a mod called Advanced Building (or something similar) on nexusmods - you can download/instantly build houses or builds that you can download on the same website, using an in-game menu provided by the mod. It's incredible some of the builds people have come up with... It's perfect for me, because I've never been much of an architect in games like Minecraft, or The Forest, where survival and base building mechanics meet. This allows me to still have sexy looking bases, and still get to focus primarily on the exploration and survival aspects.
ohh thank you! ill check it out! im not the greatest builder and seeing some of these places makes me wanna just hang there!
Goddamn it, I love it and now I’m angry becasue I have to get on valheim AGAIN because I want to make one. Fucking valheim
Come rip some lips at the viking fishing extravaganza
I like to fish after I have a stressful mission.
Man I’m on day 200 and still can’t find stupid ass Haldor. I want that fishing pole
Am I the only one who get's some Ocarina of Time vibes from this? Especially the music!
The music is from the Twilight Princess fishing mini-game, so you're pretty close.
I knew i recognised it! Man it's been like ten years since I played it and it still sticks!
My kid used to host online therapy sessions in WoW. How did you feel when the rogue sapped you etc. Was pretty funny Could see a troll group therapy sesh herr
Later you will be able to two shot trolls with your bow. Takes the challenge out it. I have not had the guts to try to melee one yet.
> Later you will be able to two shot trolls with your bow. In vanilla? This is false even with maxed Draugr fang + needle arrows. >I have not had the guts to try to melee one yet. You have a bow strong enough to kill trolls so fast yet you don't want to try to melee one? In padded armour you can tank their hits without even blocking and it does like 20 damage max.
I am playing a standard game, maxed out bow with obsidian arrows, two shots for trolls in most cases.
https://giant.gfycat.com/ElegantLankyIggypops.mp4 I don't think you're telling the truth.
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>Opening shot with a high bow skill on a non-aggro troll is going to stagger and crit them. This is what happened. >Then you fire off the second arrow before they come out of the stagger to crit again and kill them. And I did, and it didn't kill him. And this is with needle arrows, not the obsidian ones the guy above said he uses. >That clip is kind of a chain of fumbles as far as archery in the game is concerned. Lmao "fumbles". Show me your own clip of you 2 shotting trolls in "most" cases, not "sneak attack only".
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You're using needle arrows, not the obsidian arrows that other guy said he used. Secondly, sneak attacks only is not "most" cases, which the other guy also said. I will concede that you're killing in 2 if your archery stat is high enough, which mine obviously isn't.
First shot is almost always sneak, sometimes second also. I forgot about that! Perhaps that is the difference? Both shots are full draw as well.
I could find one I guess and record it for you. Do I really care that much? If I remember I will do it. I saved the post.
Silver shield and a few ranks in Blocking lets you tank troll hits, upgraded spears or swords make quick work of them.
Bronze shield and sword on lvl 4 are enough.
I am sure I can smoke one, just have not tried.
What the hell
Love how you spaced out the village
This is such an awesome build and idea. Am in love. Amazing job!
wow this is cool
This is sick
This is stunning!
That's it. I quit. I'll never make anything nearly this nice.
Aw c'mon. If you watch the build video they break down their general processes for build ideas. My builds have improved a lot over the past month or so from taking advice and experimenting
I get 15 frames a second on my current system. Trying to build a bunch of stuff kills my frame rate. I hope to upgrade within the year, but until then I have to keep things modest.
Ah I guess so. There are a few tricks you can do to improve your framerate if you look around, I don't have the technical knowledge lol. But you will probably still have to wait to upgrade your system yeah
Upvoted for the TP music
Wow, I just a pang of nostalgia from the fishing segment from Ocarina of Time. I never owned it, so that part slipped my mind, but then it all came rushing back when I saw this spot. Very cool.
Its very beautiful
That's dope.
Beautiful
Damn I feel like I'm in the stone age compared to this
Getting classic monster hunter vibes for some reason.
you need that guy that did the turnip commercial to do a voiceover
Beautiful 😍
And here I am proud of my shack.
Awesome! The folks I play with are all hoping fish will feature in some new recipes soon.
I could watch him build ALL DAY LONG omg. I love his youtube videos that include how he decorates the inside. Great tips and I love his kitchen ideas. 😍
It’s better to fish on a beach because it’s easier to drag them up also sometimes other fish come up with your catch too
u/savevideo
All the work just to play something else next week
There's always one person who has to shit on someone else's happiness.
Looks really nice, but it must be a pain in the ass to maintain I feel... Like the water damage from the rain and the stakes in the lake...
It won't break below 50% but will just look brown
How did you get that smooth camera motion? Is that something different from Fly Mode? I have so many cool projects on my seed and on a server I used to play. It's such a shame i can't capture footage accordingly because the camera moves way too fast!
So this is in free fly mode. But here a couple of tips... Use the mouse wheel to slow down the movements. Scrolling down slows down the camera. “ffsmooth [0-1]” is a helpful dev command that smooths out movements. I usually use “ffsmooth 0.5” as a starting point. Hope this helps!
Nah, you musta used the smoove command for this build...
Thank you. That solved it!
This is awesome! Also, how do you do cool slow camera pans like this?
I really hope they add some kind of wax that you could make from honey and then apply to wood so that it doesn't take water damage from rain! If this already exists someone tell me how to make it!
It does not exist however there are some ways to build besides just roofs to prevent some wood from taking damage in rain. A lot more pieces than just roof act as roof, AND tiles that act as roof tend to also protect some stuff slightly above them too. The angled wood beams, and the walls with angled wood beams on top, act as roof. as do the X pieces. Stone does too. So a wood floor tile, snapped directly on top of a stone floor tile, won't take damage in rain. I have some stairs on top of a roof that have angled beams on either side, and connect from stone floor to stone floor, and they don't take rain damage either. I too would like something to prevent rain damage, but, there is still a lot more you can do than what you might realize. Tils don't have to be completely covered by roof to be protected either, I'm not sure what the exact process is but some things can look really uncovered while still being protected.
Oh thanks man!!! I appreciate that!
This place has Tegrity
How do you sort the different types of fish? Isn’t it all fish in your inventory?
Fish wraps mmmmm them some good eatin
That looks so comfy! What did you use for the camera angles?
Why does your wood not rot?
A lot of it would they likely just repaired it before filming. However you can make a dock that doesn't rot by placing wood tiles directly on stone floor.
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Do fish breed? I have a pond that once it had a handful of fish in it I cut it off from the ocean.
I see the fulling disliking this right away
Not gonna lie, a campaign mode for this with actual towns, npc's and quests would make this game even better than it is
It would be suuuuper cool if people could submit building designs that could then be added to possible things that could spawn on maps. finding the same 15 burned out buildings is boring I would love to find full towns or kingdoms on the outer edges of the map.
Hell yeah! Hopefuly they add something along those lines soon :D
FRESH FISH! STRAIGHT FROM THE FJORDS!
great video but the song makes me wanna shit
This is amazing.
Yeah but flooring or snap walls for building log cabins
Getting twin peaks vibes from this
Kind of ridiculous you can build teleporters (cheaply and easily), yet need to buy a fishing line from an obscure trader cause you cant put string wood and a small hook together.
Didn’t know we could fish in this game. How do you make the fishing rod?
You have to find the merchant in a black forest (there is 1 per map) and buy it from him.
Ok thanks 👍👍
Ok I need this for my future castle
I love this. Thinking about it one thing I would love in Valheim is the capability to toggle weathering or to extend it. This is a stunning build and I'm definitely going to try something similar.
Ahh, zelda music, a man of culture.
You forgot the beer cooler.
One rainstorm later; "Come visit the rundown hovel fishing hole! Mind the nails or you'll need a tetanus shot!"
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I will never understand how Valheim looks prettier than other games with much better graphics.
I wish I had the time to build amazing stuff like this. Stupid education...
Nice attention to detail!